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Whatever you are familiar with and trust. Usually you start out with a company you've been following closely for several years and you think (and maybe analysts agree with you) that their fundamentals deserve a higher price than the market is giving them and that their business model is sustainable for the future.

If you are a complete noob though: None. You don't start out stock-picking. For starters it's very unlikely that you just happen to beat the market with your perfect first-time investment. And holding just a few or even worse, just one title puts you under a lot of pressure. Diversification is king to lower your risk to a sensible amount. Buy an ETF to start out.

>>1795506
But wouldn't it be safe, if Apple for example is low and I get a couple of shares and sit on them til i can make a 200 dollar profit then sell them?

>>1795571
Well, as safe as Apple's future business. It's not like coming up with shitty products or selling a device that will explode in your hands is exactly unheard of.

Look, everything has a risk. Apples is a big company, but a very specific company - it's a US corporation, producing in China, a tech company, highly dependant on design and innovation, etc. If anything goes wrong with any of the aspects listed, they're in trouble.
So holding only 1 company means you have a high exposure to certain risks and in general your volatility will be very high. It can go up 2% in a day, but also down 4%. Holding shares from different companies in different fields decreases your risk exposure, because if anything happens to one of them, it's only a small part of your capital. It also irons out the volatility. One may go down 10% in a day, but the other's go up 2% and still keep you in the positive.

In the end it's of course your fucking money. Do with it whatever you want. If you know Apple and their business environment well enough to predict there will be no troubles ahead and you have further cruched the numbers and press releases to a point where you expect future profits and thus appreciation of the stock - might as well invest. Just be aware that there is no certainty of any of that actually happening. You're literally betting all your money on one horse.

Even though your question is not strictly /k related, you'll probably get a more informed answer over there.

Air force here, the clerk trade is probably what you're looking for but it can be pretty mind numbing.
There are a bunch of trades in the air force that have you sitting around doing nothing all day, but there's enough cool stuff going on that you won't want to kill yourself like clerk work can.

Air traffic control is probably the most "civilianized" trade in the forces in that most everyone is laid back and as an NCM you won't even be doing any hard work.

I'm assuming you don't have a degree, but if you do then most officer trades also happen to be work from behind a desk and get paid twice as much.

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>>1795401
a house, made out of kneepads

>>1795401
shipping container

>>1795401
Are you actually an American citizen born & raised here or an immigrant?

>>1795365

Asking this on an indonesian basket weaving forum.. lol

Better just get a 2nd McJob.

Simple truth.

Anyone with the money to day trade and see a large enough profit margin to live on has better things to do with their time, being either idle rich or in public service or non-profit, leaving trading in hired hands. Anyone without the money to day trade and see a large enough profit margin to live on is better off investing in a small business or working toward a higher paying job.

Then there are those poor unfortunate bastards on the cusp of real money who gamble everything on a few rolls of the dice. Most of them lose it.

>>1796083
>Anyone with the money to day trade and see a large enough profit margin to live on has better things to do with their time
Nah, I like to spend my time trading, then again, I'm retired.
But I'd say the rest of your post is correct.

It's for retarded normies who wouldn't invest anything without an app forcing them to
if you are capable of just investing without being forced then do that instead

>>1795340
I like it because it lets me invest in a diverse portfolio with small dollar amount increments. If you don't have a lot of upfront capital it's convenient to invest 5 bucks a day. Better return than a savings account for a nice little rainy day fund.

I think fintech is gonna blow up in the years to come and they'll probably add a lot more of the "Found Money" offers.

whats "aggressive" xDDDDDDDDDD coca cola?? xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

>>1794591
bamp

please respond

>>1794591
Look into fixing mining equipment. You'll be flown all over the world making bank.

you almost rustled my jimmies. good job.

HR? They are really important but you may be misunderstanding their role.

Their only job is to prevent employees from suing the employer.

>>1794480
Their only job is to be cunty middle aged women who gossip, pretend to care about employees problems, and conduct exit interviews.

>>1794207
Bump for interest.

>betting on mainstream sport

>>1794270
should i be betting on the up and coming ultimate frisbee leagues?


i feel like it has to be "mainstream" otherwise other people wont be betting on it too

>>1793894
So you own 66% of the value of the house?

>>1793927

dude what the fuck does that even mean? why is /biz/ so retarded when it comes to RE?

If more than one person owns the estate there are only three types of tenancy we can be talking about, a tenancy by entirety (married couple) or joint tenancy (50/50, 70/30, etc), with the right of survivorship. Finally a tenancy in common, what OP prolly has.

Regardless of their shares, all tenants are entitled to the use, possession and enjoyment of the entire property.

>>1793894
option one dude.

be free with money, not dealing w cunts.

>>1793138
bamp! i'm interested in this shit too.

>>1793921
anyhow i'm calculating right now that if gold does take over the reserve currency status it will be worth 10 times the current price in eur and probably a 100 times the current in usd as usd will get fucked hard.

these are of course for one possible outcome from many.

Ok, just so I'm sure, it's the concept that the US dollar has been backed by oil ever since OPEC agreed to only trade oil in US dollars, correct?

And because Trump is planning on decreasing our dependence on foreign oil through fracking and other things, OPEC may see no point in continuing the agreement causing the American dollar to plummet, therefore it would not be unwise to invest in precious metals ASAP?

kneepads

The pimp game. Ask Randy Bobandy.

>>1792886
This. A man's gotta eat.

What? When has this ever been a thing?

>>1797025
Since you're using the term net present value, I'm assuming you're talking about a venture that has projected negative earnings. There are many reasons why this still might be a profitable undertaking. There might be valuable research & development, brand development, goodwill, intellectual property and other tangible or intangible assets that flow from the venture that won't appear in earnings. The venture might open new strategic partnerships, or open new territories, or otherwise open doors or cement relationships that yield profit elsewhere or later. And sometimes its just a question of doing more damage to the competition than you do to yourself. What hurts them, helps you ... even if it comes at a cost.

>>1797067
Ah ok I think I understand what you're talking about. And yeah that's what I meant. So would an example be (let's just say in example) if snapchat was failing and not as profitable for the upkeep and Facebook bought it out just so they can force Instagram, is that the idea?

CERU my nigga

>new strategy

50% of portfolio goes to reliable blue chip stocks

other 50% goes to get rich quick meme schemes

find a flaw protip you can't

SGNL

Yea
Work sucks irl is actually stressful/unpleasurable and that dopamine hit only comes when you get paid
Videogames are like a slow steady release of dat sweet dopamine

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>>1794655
I suffer from the same condition, monitoring thread

I quit for a while after playing for ten years and felt so much better, but I relapsed

>>1794657

I understand WHY they're enjoyable, but what I'm pondering is whether there's a way to climb out of the skinner-box and somehow construct your real life in such a way that you can create your own operant conditioning structure for the purpose of self-control.

Why not open a company in Hong Kong and do all your trading through that?

>>1794114

Thank you for suggestion. I'm not big league pretender like many guys here on /biz/ so I'll honestly say I have no idea how to do that and if it is legal.

>>1794108
what's swing trading?